Hi
I have been a long time user of AntispamSniper for TheBat! and I am very pleased with it, so I was very happy to purchase AntispamSniper for Outlook to install on my laptop which has Outlook 2007 installed.

Now I'm not a great fan of Outlook, I have it installed so that when my customers speak with me I have some understanding of what they are using.

But, I have to say that when I am using AntispamSniper it seems to make Outlook slow to a crawl whilst connecting to my IMAP mail servers.

Can you offer any suggestions for the optimum settings for using Outlook with IMAP for the minimum impact on performance?

When I turn off the Antispam addin Outlook performance goes back to 'normal'.

Here is a short description of how the plug-in filters IMAP accounts:
- Each time when you select an IMAP folder, the plug-in downloads the headers of new messages.
- The plug-in classifies the headers using the selected filtering methods: DNSBL, black and white list of addresses, black words in subject, black and white rules. Checking IP addresses via DNSBL may take some time, so it is possible to speedup this stage by turning off checking DNSBL.
- The plug-in downloads the full contents of the messages, which were not recognized as 100% spam or ham, and classifies them using the statistical algorithm. By default Outlook doesn't download the bodies of IMAP messages. But the plug-in needs the full message body to evaluate the spam ratio, and the downloading takes a noticeable time on slow connections.
- The messages recognized as spam with high ratio are moved to Junk folder.

To speed up the filtering you can try to turn off checking DNSBL. If you have a slow internet connection, it makes sense to use POP3 instead of IMAP to avoid wasting time and traffic during filtering messages.

I never use DSNBL because I find it causes too much of a performance hit.

However, it seems that Outlook 2007 doesn't seem to coexist well with AntiSpamSniper. At the moment I seem to suffer from a number of 'crashes' but if I turn off the ASS 'add-in' then Outlook settles down.

However, it seems that Outlook 2007 doesn't seem to coexist well with AntiSpamSniper. At the moment I seem to suffer from a number of 'crashes' but if I turn off the ASS 'add-in' then Outlook settles down.

There are no known compatibility problems with Outlook 2007. Could you please provide the steps to reproduce a crash?

The plug-in downloads the full contents of the messages, which were not recognized as 100% spam or ham, and classifies them using the statistical algorithm. By default Outlook doesn't download the bodies of IMAP messages. But the plug-in needs the full message body to evaluate the spam ratio, and the downloading takes a noticeable time on slow connections._________________Smile PleazZZZzzzZZZzzzz